463 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : ECONOMICS. [P ART III : 
The wages paid to the ordinary coolies (men) and rezas (women) vary 
Coolie wages considerably from one area to another. The 
rates are shown in the follomng table as far 
as I have been able to ascertain them : — 
Table M. 
Rates foj coolie labour. 
Daily wages. 
Men. 
Women. 
Children. 
Be^sgal I — 
Annas. 
Annas. 
Annas. 
3 
2 
n 
Centbal Isdu. : — 
I2i 
li 
li 
Cekteal Peovinces : — 
3-6 
2-3 
1-2 
4-7 
2i-3i 
1-2 
Madras : — . . 
4-5 
2-3 
^-^ 
li-2 
i-l 
Mtsoee : — 
5-G 
3-4 
2-3 
4-5 
2-3 
1-3 
It is only the ordinary unskilled coolies that are paid the above rates. 
Contract and depart- account of the frequency with which the 
mental labour. coolies like to take holidays, owing to religious 
festivals or to the necessity of attending to crops, the mine managers find 
it preferable not to engage their coolies directly. The consequence is 
that most of the labour is supplied by contract, the contractor undertak - 
ingto extract and stack cleaned ore at a given rate per 1 ,000 cubic feet 
